Free solar panel installation?

[mattikake]

or scam?

http://www.fundedsolar.org.uk/about-us/

Seems viable business. As I see it, you get a free install and once it's paid for itself from the providers takings of the Feed In Tariff, you get those takings too.

[mattikake]

dazwalsh said:

Got one of these companies in to do one of my rentals and no scam involved, they put panels up and maintain them, whatever isn't used by the tenant during the day gets sold back to the grid but the company gets the tarrif. After 20/25 years they are wholely yours and you get the profit from them.

This is what I imagined. Except they claim you'd pay in back in 10 years, but that would surely depend on your usage v's production. In the meantime you get cheaper electricity bills, which would sell me regardless.

Btw the consultant who rang me about 30 seconds after I made a web enquiry, said the panels installation was funded by Barclays Bank.

gazapc said:

If you are intersted in solar then using cash is by far the best way, a standard 4 kW system can be had for not much over £5k these days. Doesn't have to be directly south facing and there are ways around dealing with small roof spaces and reducing shading effects.

So what could you expect to generate out of an unshaded, south-facing, roughly 4m x 4m roof space?